FAQ

General FAQ's

1. Why do this extension exist? How is this better than other similar extensions?
   This extension is just a small step in controlling one's addiction for facebook and increase productivity. Throught this extension one could check how much time he/she spent on facebook and realize whether it was worth it or not?

2. How is this extension better than other similar extensions?
   There are few similar extension present in chrome web store but most of them don't work correctly. Those extensions are dependent on facebook's class for injecting the timer so any change in facebook's html code removes the timer. But this is not the case with this extension, it uses fixed positioning display and will always show up. Also, the chances for update(improvement/development) is many fold greater for this extension and many new features will come soon.

3. Would it slow down my browser?
   The overall size of this extension is less than 50KB and the scripts are very light-weight. There is no chance that this extension will slow down your browsing experience in any way.

4. Google Chrome gives warning that this extension might be dangerous and asks to disable developer mode.
   The complete code of this extension is in front of you and this extension doesn't harms your computer or steals you data in any way. It will take $5 to host this extension on Chrome web store so the only way to use this extension for now is to use Developer mode. Will try to host in future.

5. I want some XYZ feature in this extension. Is this possible?
   Please create an issue of the feature that you want. If that would be feasible, it would certainly be implemented. Infact, you are requested to please suggest some cool features for this extension :)

6. I also want to contribute to development. How to get started?
   Thank you for thinking of that 👍 . Please go to wiki page of this extension to get the basic idea of the layout of this extension. There are mainly 3 JavaScript files responsible for the functionality of this extension. The code is well-commented and is very simple to understand. Anyone with basic idea of JavaScript can easily contribute.